Title: Culture of the future: the Proletkult movement in revolutionary RussiaAuthor: Mally, LynnPublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | European History | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: Just days before the October 1917 Revolution, the Proletkult was formed in Petrograd to serve as an umbrella organization for numerous burgeoning working-class cultural groups. Advocates of the Proletkult hoped to devise new forms of art, education, and social relations that would express the spirit . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial RussiaAuthor: Nathans, BenjaminPublished: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914Author: Neuberger, JoanPublished: University of California Press, 1993Subjects: History | Politics | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | CriminologyPublisher's Description: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between class . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Konspira: Solidarity undergroundAuthor: Łopiński, MaciejPublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Konspira bares the soul and mind of Solidarity not long before the movement's stunning emergence as Poland's political vanguard. Written while martial law still gripped the country, Konspira tells the inside story of this inspiring contemporary workers' movement. The authors taped, then consolidated . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The origins of modernism in Russian architectureAuthor: Brumfield, William Craft 1944-Published: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the sear . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through MavraAuthor: Taruskin, RichardPublished: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: Music | Musicology | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsk . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929Author: Ball, Alan MPublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: History | European History | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet cityAuthor: Ruble, Blair A 1949-Published: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilizationAuthor: Kotkin, StephenPublished: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: History | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Not by bread alone: social support in the new RussiaAuthor: Caldwell, Melissa L 1969-Published: University of California Press, 2004Subjects: Anthropology | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | European StudiesPublisher's Description: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex - if no less necessary and nourishing - than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the pos . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: To craft democracies: an essay on democratic transitionsAuthor: Di Palma, GiuseppePublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: Politics | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | HistoryPublisher's Description: Is democracy a hot-house plant? Is it difficult to transplant it into new soil? The fall of so many dictatorships in the last few years - first in Southern Europe, then in Latin America, now in Eastern Europe - opens new, more optimistic perspectives on democratic development. The crises of dictator . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinctionAuthor: Jowitt, KennethPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: Politics | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Russia's women: accommodation, resistance, transformationAuthor: Clements, Barbara Evans 1945-Published: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional as . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politicsAuthor: Jacobson, Jon 1938-Published: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: History | Politics | European History | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Russian opera and the symbolist movementAuthor: Morrison, Simon Alexander 1964-Published: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: Music | Opera | Musicology | Composers | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudies | LiteraturePublisher's Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth ce . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern EuropeAuthor: Lévesque, JacquesPublished: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: Politics | History | European History | RussianandEasternEuropeanStudiesPublisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more]Similar Items